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Ben South

@bnj

teacher @variantui • past: vp @postmates, founder @sonar (acq) and @bold (acq)

sf Katılım Nisan 2008
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
We made a tool that lets you absorb the vibe of anything you point it at and apply it to your designs It's absurd and it just works Style Dropper, now available in @variantui
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Arlan
Arlan@arlanr·
i’ve noticed that ex-valorant players who peaked above immortal 3 are insanely good engineers or founding team members in general. if you’re one of them, i want to hire you. especially if you instalocked jett like me.
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jason@jxnlco·
Thanks pydantic.
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@ykslyy Same reason why gold jewelry looks bad on people with cool undertones
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Cranjis McBasketball
I’m in my 20s I shouldn’t be a GM but I appreciate all the kind words from folks on this 😂 I hope LA finds folks with strong demonstrated histories of success in a comparable roles.
lakersallday408@JamesMurilyget

@Tim_NBA Cranji I know for a fact the front office would be better with you in there!

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Eric Jiang
Eric Jiang@veggie_eric·
genuinely hate that I can no longer use "—" in anything I write anymore
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Tuscaloosa 🏆@TuscaloosaSEC·
@rohindhar San Fran market seemed almost on the verge of collapse not too long ago. What happened to cause the resurgence?
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Rohin Dhar@rohindhar·
BTW, do not be alarmed While the market for real estate in San Francisco is going absolutely crazy in the $5 to $10 MM range and selling way above expectations right now Below this price point, home prices are business as usual and are elevated, but not any more than the NASDAQ and S&P500 ETC Keep calm and carry on. Yes, it's competitive, but it will be okay.
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adel 🌟
adel 🌟@adelwu_·
sf will have the most sus doors to buildings and then u walk in and it’s this
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Nikita Bier
Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
Today we're rolling out a new History tab on iOS to help you keep track of all your favorite content on X. Bookmarks, Long Videos, Articles and Likes will live here -- so you can always come back and continue watching or reading. The Timeline moves fast, so we hope this creates a better place for catching up on long-form content.
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Lakers Daily
Lakers Daily@LakersDailyCom·
WHERE HAS THIS CROWD BEEN ALL SERIES!?
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Colossus
Colossus@colossusmag·
Scott Wu in 7th grade at the MathCounts national championship. The last answer is the most insane.
Colossus@colossusmag

Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math. You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco. For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score. Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history. Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few. Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu. In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition. He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it. Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion. @JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance. As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code. Read the piece below.

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Colossus
Colossus@colossusmag·
Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math. You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco. For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score. Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history. Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few. Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu. In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition. He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it. Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion. @JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance. As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code. Read the piece below.
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F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli
Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with violating 18 USC 951, acting in the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Wang appeared in federal court this afternoon for her arraignment. She agreed to plead guilty and resign from public office. Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022. At the direction of the PRC government, she coordinated with individuals to promote PRC interests by spreading pro-PRC propaganda in the United States. Wang faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@nypost Surprised she only got 10 years for straight up treason
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Ben South@bnj·
“Legible” is the new “taste”
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
My 5-star travel booking experience: It’s done extensive research on me (previous destinations, restaurants, experiences etc) and plans/books the entire trip while making the same tradeoffs (price/quality/availability/pacing) that I would’ve chosen Knows whoever I’m going on the trip with and can make balanced decisions there too
Brian Chesky@bchesky

@benhylak The ChatGPT interface doesn’t work for this. We’ve already tried it.

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